A few days ago, the IOM announced that: “The Netherlands and IOM Libya have signed an agreement for an 18-month project aimed at enhancing the Libyan Coast Guard’s capacity to save lives at sea and supporting the humanitarian repatriation of vulnerable migrants from Libya.” This is what “saving lives” looks like: Refugees shot at by Libyan coastguard before being detained in ‘shocking’ conditions back in Libya. “The Libyan coastguard is intercepting and returning thousands of people to detention centres where they suffer torture and other abuses” – Magdalena Mughrabi. “The guards would beat us if we said we’re hungry… They would make us lie down on our stomach and two would hit us with [a] hose… I saw a Chadian man, they shot him for no reason in front of me” – Eritrean man on conditions at Abu Slim detention centre. The EU’s plans to work more closely with Libya...
↧